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== Film ==

* Jacques Tati's ''Playtime''.

* This was the standard design aesthetic for science fiction until ''[[Star Wars]]'' hit the scene. Chronologically, it is likely the first aversion in film with ''[[Star Wars]]: [[A New Hope]]'', which debuted in 1977. Two years later, ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' averted the trope yet further, as the starships were gritty and grimy, just as you should expect a giant long-haul vehicle that is its own repair garage would be ''in space''. Less "sports car," more "Australian outback 4WD". ''[http://davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm Tales of Future Past]'' has pages of examples.

* This was the standard design aesthetic for science fiction until ''[[Star Wars]]'' hit the scene. Chronologically, it is likely the first aversion in film with ''[[Star Wars]]: [[A New Hope]]'', which debuted in 1977. Two years later, ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' averted the trope yet further, as the starships were gritty and grimy, just as you should expect a giant long-haul vehicle that is its own repair garage would be ''in space''. Less "sports car," more "Australian outback 4WD". ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20060205154114/http://davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm Tales of Future Past]'' has pages of examples.

** [[Star Wars]] actually uses it to good effect to contrast the clean, dark and minimalist [[The Empire|Imperial]] [[The Battlestar|Star Destroyers]] with the dirty and homey Millennium Falcon. Also semi-averted in Episode 2 with the Kaminoan homeworld: the Kaminoan buildings look like they have a white minimalistic appearance, but [[All There in the Manual|the Kaminoans' vision is mostly in a spectrum that humans can't see, so all their artwork and painting is in ultraviolet]].

** Cloud City follows this trope to a 'T' with it's interior decoration dominated by the use of white.